Chicago's the place to be!
Good morning. This is me. We’re up and moving wooHOOO!! This is Tuesday morning … so it is a CARF Day. Yup, yup that is my first thought of this period. It is about 5:10 am and we’ve been up for 40 minutes and have showered and made the cat food.Ok, and a little front line stories. I couldn’t help but note that some woman had the remain of four of her fetuses laying about her place. Yup, yup murder … first degree. I can’t say I feel bad about that one. She deserved some serious punishment.
Other than that, we’ve cleared our screen with the exception of the pictures from the Venetian night … That is still very beautiful. It’s hard to believe sometimes that I could be here for things like that. It just seems a curiosity major that these things could exist right out my back door. Pswhoo. Breathtaking! It’s like all of Chicago is a mystery to me, because we have so much tunnel vision in just getting up, going to work, and coming home.
AHA! We found the sight …. And man-o-man … look at this list!
900 North Michigan Shops
Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum
Allstate Arena
Amazing Chicago Funhouse Maze
American Girl Place
American Sightseeing Tours
Anita Dee Yacht Charters
AON Center (Amoco Building)
Argosy's Empress Casino Joliet
Arie Crown Theatre
Arlington Park Racetrack
Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture
Blue Chip Casino
Blue Man Group
Brookfield Zoo
Buckingham Fountain
Cernan Earth and Space Center
Chicago Air & Water Show
Chicago Apparel Center
Chicago Architecture Tours
Chicago Bears
Chicago Blackhawks
Chicago Blues Festival
Chicago Board of Trade
Chicago Botanic Garden
Chicago Bulls
Chicago Children's Museum
Chicago Cubs
Chicago Cultural Center
Chicago Fire
Chicago From the Lake
Chicago Greeter "Free Tours"
Chicago Historical Society
Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.
Chicago Neighborhood Tours
Chicago Place
Chicago Shakespeare Theater
Chicago Stock Exchange
Chicago Trolley Tours
Chicago White Sox
Chicago Wolves
Chicagoland Speedway
Chicago's First Lady
City Gallery at the Historic Water Tower
City Hall-County Building
Cuneo Museum & Gardens
Daley Civic Center
Donald E. Stephens Convention Center
Drury Lane Oak Brook
DuSable Museum of African-American History
ESPN Zone
Evanston Art Center
Excursions Into the Unknown
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Ford Center for Performing Arts
Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio
Free Spirit Yacht Cruises
Gallery 37 Center of the Arts
Garfield Park Conservatory
Grand Victoria Casino
Grant Park
Gray Line Tours
Gurnee Mills
Harold Washington Library Center
Resorts East Chicago Hotel & Casino
Harrah's Casino Joliet
Hawthorn Center
Hawthorn Race Course
Hellenic Museum and Cultural Center
Hollywood Casino Aurora
Horseshoe Casino
House of Blues-Chicago
Illinois Art Gallery-Thompson Center
Illinois Railway Museum
Jackson Park
James R. Thompson Center
John Hancock Center
Jumer's Casino Rock Island
Kane County Cougars
Kohl Children's Museum
Lambs Farm
Latvian Folk Art Museum
Lederman Science Center
Lincoln Park Conservatory
Lincoln Park Zoo
Lyric Opera of Chicago
Magnificent Mile
Majestic Star Casino
Marina City
Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire
Maywood Park Race Track
McCormick Place
Medieval Times Dinner & Tournament
Metro Duck Tours
Metropolis Performing Arts Center
Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum
Midway Airport
Millennium Park
Mitchell Museum of the American Indian
Museum of Broadcast Communications
Museum of Contemporary Art
Museum of Contemporary Photography
Museum of Science and Industry
Mystic Blue Cruises
National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum
Navy Pier
North Avenue Beach
Northbrook Court
Northwestern Station/Ogilvie Transportation Center
Oak Brook Center
Oak Street Beach
Odyssey Cruises
O'Hare International Airport
Old Orchard
Orchestra Hall
Oriental Institute Museum
Osaka Garden
Palwaukee Airport
Par-A-Dice Casino
Pheasant Run Theater
Polish Museum of America
Prairie Center for the Arts
Ravinia Festival
Robie House
Rosemont Theatre
Route 66 Raceway
Santa's Village
Schaumburg Flyers
Seadog Speedboat Cruises
Sears Tower
Sears Tower Skydeck
Second City Theatre
Shedd Aquarium
Shops at the Mart
Shoreline Sightseeing
Six Flags Great America
Skyline Stage at Navy Pier
Smith Museum of Stained Glass Windows at Navy Pier
Soldier Field
Spertus Museum of Judaica
Spirit of Chicago
State Street
Swedish American Museum Center
Taste of Chicago
The Apollo Theatre
The Art Institute of Chicago
The Auditorium Theatre
The Cadillac Palace Theatre
The Chicago Athenaeum
The Chicago Theater
The Chicago Water Tower
The David & Alfred Smart Museum of Art
The Field Museum
The Goodman Theatre
The Hancock Observatory
The Isle of Capri Casino
The Merchandise Mart
The Morton Arboretum
The Peace Museum
The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
Westfield North Bridge
The Shubert Theatre
Time Escape at Navy Pier
Tony N' Tina's Wedding
Trump Casino
Tweeter Center
Ukrainian National Museum
Union Station
United Center
US Cellular Field - Comiskey Park
Venetian Night
Water Tower Place
Wendella Sightseeing
Woodfield Shopping Mall
Woodstock Opera House
Wrigley Field
I checked out Chicago free greeter … and for 1-6 people at a time (December for local people), this group will send you out to see the city with a local expert and it doesn’t cost anything … this is stuff that we need to know about. The list is fantastic! All part of a plan that I feel like taking on to become more Chicago literate so we can have our people out and visiting proper. A good many of these places you can do for a low or nothing cost. I know the Venetian one listed that we just went to was a night event, but again another no cost – except for parking event. Just so gosh darn much to do for people that live here. We need to make sure our people our environmentally and culturally aware.
Hmm, I seemed to spend the best part of this hour thumbing through all this, but could you see where we might get excited?! AHA! Sister just signed on. She’ll now maybe open the list we just sent her. 5:54 am … funny thing to be in communication with the boss so early in the day … I know its been that way for a long time, but wow. This is pretty darn neat thing about working at SRC.
Hmm, work … that seems to be a pretty big deal now days. We stayed late again last night because Rich had a ball game and wasn’t getting home until about 10 pm. We have a little problem there in that one of us is leaving off the covers so he will come by and tuck us in. That’s probably not a real good idea … have to watch that.
But ………..
Anyway we stayed at work, an even through the majority of the day … we focused on taking care of the Paper Tiger organization AND we think we resolved a major project in how to set-up or develop the program. We have to formalize it and send it to Sr. Theresa for revision thoughts, and she might not go for it at all. This is why its so important that we communicate to her the project well. We were looking for a new direction for the start of the fall program in September. I don’t know why that date, but it seems like a marker point. Sr. says I won’t get by with not teaching DSPs for long … just over the summer. We are going to need kicking back into gear for the Thinking Group too. We might take her up on her thought to do each the every other week. I don’t know how serious about that she was.
I will wait until I formalize a bit the plan, but I tell ya … last night if I weren’t so tired I’d of kissed everyone on my way home from work. It felt very, very good. I’m afraid to look at it now minutes away from waking Rich because after I open it there will be so much to be doing. Hehehe … I can bet that Sweetie Pie never got walk-to-the-bathroom rubs in his old life. We took the few moments to get him up and then were saying loudly with a wave WOOHOOO its morning! Yep, yep … certainly good to see the new day. I should probably get dressed now that he’s out of the bedroom … one more sip of coffee, hold on 6:09 now.
posted by Ann Marie @ 7/31/2007 07:08:00 PM
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